My wife forwarded me a tie-in lately about a new motion picture calledHelvetica , which , as you might have guess , is all about the well - known font — a font , it turns out , that is keep its 50th natal day this year . For a word - lusus naturae like me , this for sure sounds like a MUST - SEE docudrama , one I might even buy on DVD later . It got me thinking about good quondam Helvetica , and how it ’s always been one of my favs . Others let in Palatino and Gill Sans and even the original Courier ( the new one is just a niggling too , I do n’t know , substitute for my taste sensation . Kinda like the difference between a skillful cosher frankfurter and NotDogs . )
It also got me wondering what other peoples ' preferred font are . Who among you really uses those dotty , curly affronts MS WORD serve up in the font dropdown carte ? Monotype Corsiva ? Kristen ITC ? Ravie ? I mean aboveboard . If you ’ve got a favorite and want to tell us why , do n’t be timid " ¦ it ’s the interactional part of the Wrap , folks .
Meanwhile , after the leap , scan a little send - up on the " About this Font" pageboy you often ascertain at the back of books . I always receive them not only educational but often screaming . So I drop a line this satire and put out in the back of my novel , Behind Everyman .
ABOUT THE TYPE
This Scripture was pose in a digital version of Monotype Cution . The original font was created by Ella Cution ( 1845 - 1910 ) . Before becoming a biff cutter with her own chain of case foundries in cities as diverse as Constantinople and Istanbul , she was apprenticed to a midwife where she is pronounce to have spent the better part of her day waiting for the innovation of the disposable napkin .
It was there , work in tocology , that Cution invented her first fount : C incision . The following month , with borrowed money from her beginner , she opened her first type foundry . Despite ongoing problems from various labor factions ( Active and Transition labour lobbied for scant hours , while Induced labor fought for higher pay ) she open a dozen more within five years .
deplorably , after Ella Cution ’s passing , her enfranchisement of type foundries was take over by her daughter , Elektra Cution , and quick flipped for the more moneymaking Blimpie ’s chain , popular with many lunch and dinner frequenter on the go .
